Quotes About Autonomy

Mejor sería ganarse la vida pero mi vida es mía, solo mía, mi vida no necesito ganármela.

I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.

She preferred those occupations that require no companion. She walked alone, rad alone, sat alone in the sittingroom or in the ray of faint sunshine which sometimes penetrated the little courtyard ab about one o'clock. She was less open-hearted and confiding than before; it was as if someone -- not necessarily Jonathan Strange -- had disappointed her and she was determined to be more independent in future.

What I'm trying to get at,' he says, 'is whether Dr Ketterley persuaded you to go anywhere. Whether he kept you anywhere against your will. Whether you were free to come and go.' 'Yes. I was free. I came and went. I did not remain in one place. I walked for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of kilometres.

Freedom was the price of privacy.

Thus, our keepers. As for finders—well, we had to be our own finders.

I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.

Codependence - Someone who lives someone else's life.

Yes, be selfish, woman—if you haven't learned that, you've learned damn little.

The man who can best gets along with women, is the man who can get along without them.

I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.

I was my own woman. The next step was to find the proper sort of man.

I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.

Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.

I hated to serve men in any way.

The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way.

The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters.

I have often fought, fought & won, not perfection, but an acceptance of myself as having a right to live on my own human, fallible terms.

It doesn't take two to dance, it only takes one.

I made a point of never living in the same house with my mother for more than a week.

Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.

Si no esperas nada de nadie, nunca estarás decepcionado.

I hated the idea of serving men in any way.

eram propria mea femeie.